. >> from ed through tom mcgwire, luis montoya to jamie parks and the staff and interested parties. as far as i can tell the exact same memo. it seems to me you call came to the come conclusion. >> we had done the natianalysish the recommendation but hasn't issued the permit. i'm trying to get to the point of the permit issued and we shared the information more broadly. >> if i can from a high-level policy standpoint as the author of the legislation and thank you to all my colleagues who voted to have a permitting scheme for stationless bicycle in the onslaught and i think we wanted to get ahead of the technology and you promulgated your own internal legislation in the code we oversee. i realize i was not on the board at the time we have this exclusivity arrangement with motivate. what i think i'm hearing from supervisor cohen and what all members of the panel share, is that whatever went down was done fairly. i think the concern is if you have other parties that didn't know the rules of the game or until the settlement agreement that the primary criteria was electric assisted bikes